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[Identification of item], in the David Outlaw Papers, #1534, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1948

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• Anderson family.
• Bertie County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Farm management--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Legislators--United States--History--19th century.
• Mexican War, 1846-1848.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Outlaw family.
• Outlaw, David, 1806-1868.
• Sectionalism (United States)
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• Slavery--United States--Extension to the territories.
• Tennessee--Genealogy.
• United States--Politics and government--1845-1861.
• Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.

Whig congressman from Bertie County, N.C.

Chiefly correspondence of Outlaw to his wife while he was a member of Congress, 1847-1853. Subjects discussed are state and national politics, including the Mexican War, the slavery question, sectionalism, the Wilmot Proviso, the Missouri Compromise, and the Compromise of 1850; social life in Washington, D.C.; and Outlaw's family and his farm in Bertie County, near Windsor, N.C. In his absence from home, Outlaw's farm was managed by one of his slaves. Also included are a few letters from Outlaw's wife and daughter and genealogical material on the Outlaw and Anderson families of Tennessee (typed transcriptions).